I am hoping for the Celtics to win tonight to close out the series, thereby creating the first Celtics/Lakers finals in 21 years. That will be exciting. Of course, I am not counting my chickens. In fact, I predicted before game 5 that the Pistons would win in 7, and I suppose that I am standing by that. However, I am hoping for a Celtics victory.
Lost was good. It keeps my interest, although I think that they should have ended the season one scene sooner than they did.
I forgot to mention that my students lined up at the end of the final to wish me a good summer and thank me for the class. Touching.
I am on a bit of a The Who kick right now. Check out two versions of "Baba O'Riley." The second is poor quality, but its sheer awesomeness compensates.
School is now done, and I am on summer vacation. This means that I am done with my present job (although I have summer school left, summer school is qualitatively different from what I do during the school year). This is, of course, sad, but I am happy to be moving on to my new job.
I have been largely wasting my time this week. I have spent a lot of time reading, particularly stuff on constructivist education. Basically, a lot of Kamii and Kohn.
I also played basketball yesterday. I played okay, moved to a different gym, and then played spectacularly. I think that I went 5/7 on three-pointers, and they were the types of shots that ripped through the net without even coming close to the rim. It was great. Then I sprained my ankle pretty badly. The interesting thing is, I am happy with the trade. Playing well for 30 minutes was worth the ankle sprain. Now, the sprain isn't that bad, and I will be all better in a week (hopefully). Still, I find this interesting.
Reading and basketball isn't really time-wasting, but Griddlers is. I refuse to link to this because of the addictive nature of the puzzle. I stayed up waaaaaay too late several nights doing this, and I blame Bad Z. I ended up changing my password to a bunch of random keystrokes so that I cannot easily access the site.
Skye and I have been watching a lot of Buffy. It is still a fantastic show. In fact, it is better this time around.
It has already been a great day. Most importantly, I just spent the last ninety minutes speaking with a student I have had all year. We talked about everything from how great her mother is, to the war, to politics, to education, to Lost. I made her cry at one point, but it was because I had written her a nice email earlier in the semester. It is great to be a teacher.
Earlier this morning, I spoke to a professor in the business school. He told me about Digi-Blocks, and I think that I like them. Plus, I think that I will get a paper out of it.
Next is a Lost theory that Bad Z originally posted. This theory seems plausible, although I do not completely understand it.
I am selling my place, and someone came into my house and put all new furniture in it. I paid them to do it. I haven't seen it yet, but it had better be cool.
I watched the Hornets-Spurs game last night, and I am officially on the Chris Paul bandwagon. He is spectacular. Also, I think that the Hornets are put together superbly. They have an all-world point guard (Paul), a great three point shooter (Stojakovic), a great midrange shooter with a good post-up game (West), a decent shooter (Peterson), and a big center who only cares about defense, rebounding, and alley-oops. I think that they could win it all (I realize I am not the first person to say this).
There is a lot of stuff I keep forgetting to post. I think that I forgot again.
Classes are done. I finished with applause from two of my classes (although one was mild), and a chorus of "thank yous" from the other. It has been a good semester.
Skye and I had lunch with Alfie Kohn yesterday, who is an exceedingly nice man. I like what he has to say, but I mostly appreciate the fact that is challenges "common sense" assumptions that we have. We don't do enough of that, I think.
I am in the midst of putting my condo up for sale. This means getting the place clean (thanks to Skye and her maid), "staging" the place (renting fancy furniture that I would never actually own myself), and giving away some of my stuff. I rented a truck to bring some of my furniture to a grad student's home tonight.
The wedding plans are going well. We mainly just need to plan the honeymoon. Part of this is almost done - I am through 24 of 30 Norwegian lessons.
I'll leave you with a great story about Chris Paul and his grandfather.
